Google is no longer treating AI memory as a niche add-on. By bringing Gemini Personal Intelligence to India, it is testing whether a model that reads Gmail, Photos, and watch history can become a daily assistant in one of its biggest markets.
Google used AI Impact Summit 2026 to bundle infrastructure, public-sector grants, and workforce programs into one AI adoption package. The announcements include $15 billion for Indian cloud and AI infrastructure, two new $30 million initiatives for government and science, and a training effort aimed at 720,000 workers.
A high-scoring LocalLLaMA thread surfaced Sarvam AI's release of two Apache 2.0 reasoning models, Sarvam 30B and Sarvam 105B. The company says both were trained from scratch in India, use Mixture-of-Experts designs, and target reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and Indian-language performance.
India's Supreme Court warned of legal consequences after a junior judge cited four non-existent court orders generated by an AI tool. The court declared it an act of 'misconduct' threatening the integrity of the judicial process.
In a February 20, 2026 (UTC) X post, Cohere said conversations at the India AI Impact Summit focused on responsible frontier AI scaling and language accessibility. The company tied this to Tiny Aya and New Delhi commitments.
Anthropic and Digital Green announced a partnership focused on AI-powered advisory access for smallholder farmers in India. Their first collaboration is a conversational assistant aimed at improving information access and on-farm decision support.
At the India AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi February 19–21, tech commitments surpassed $400B. OpenAI partnered with TCS for data center capacity, and Anthropic teamed with Infosys to deploy Claude across Indian enterprises.
OpenAI launched ‘OpenAI for India’ as a multi-track national rollout spanning compute, government services, education, and startup support. The plan includes an initial $30B commitment, optional $10B follow-on rounds, and a first-phase 5 GW infrastructure target.
In remarks published on February 19, 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai framed AI as a major platform shift and highlighted India-focused infrastructure and skilling plans. The speech cites a $15 billion Google infrastructure investment in India and calls for coordinated public-private governance.
NVIDIA’s February 17, 2026 post says major India-based systems integrators are deploying enterprise AI agents on NVIDIA infrastructure. The update cites concrete implementations from Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, and Accenture, alongside IDC’s forecast that India AI/GenAI spending will top $9.2 billion by 2028.
On February 18, 2026, Google DeepMind announced expanded partnerships in India across science, education, and public-interest AI deployment. The plan combines model access, training programs, and funding, including a $30 million Google.org AI for Science challenge.
On February 16, 2026, Anthropic announced the opening of its Bengaluru office and a broad partnership expansion across enterprise, education, agriculture, and public-sector use cases in India. The company positioned India as Claude.ai's second-largest market and highlighted concrete deployment metrics.